Re: [MLUG] progress .... ???/

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> OK, so maybe I'll stick with RH/Gnome.  If I can't even get dual 
> monitors to work right, I seriously question the wisdom of trying 
> Debian.  However, I do remember that when I had SuSE 8.2 / KDE 
> installed, I didn't have this problem.  I do need to find a way to fix 
> it though, .... I'm about to get tired of it.  (you guys are too probably 
> 
> Tell me .... when you say that RH and SuSE are for beginners, do you say 
> that basically because they will do things for me that in other distro's 
> I would have to know command line, manual config, etc.?
> 
> I don't mind learning ... but I need to know WHAT to learn.  For 
> example, I've done everything I've been told to do and know how to do to 
> fix this dual monitor problem, and it's still a problem.  I don't know 
> what the next step would be. 
> 
> The dual head Matrox card I have is quite common, and should work fine.  
> It did in SuSE and XP, so I don't think it is the issue.  ?????  Should 
> I just scratch it all and do a complete re-install and try it again? 
> 
> This is just a wild newbie hunch, but at this point, if I had to say 
> what I thought was the problem, I would probably guess the mgapdesk I 
> downloaded from Matrox has something to do with it.  At any rate, ... I 
> have to wonder, .... how many different things are there that could be 
> causing this.  There surely couldn't be that many, could there???

It could be many things. Computers have literally billions of variables 
that could go wrong and most of them are sort of mysterious. It could be 
a software problem, a hardware problem, or a real world problem (ie the 
monitors to close together) or any combination thereof. Learning to work 
through all these things to get to the heart of the problems quickly is 
as much an art as a science.

Did you ever ask on the XFree86 mailing list as I suggested?

> Also, here's another hint.  Surely this is a clue to something.  Even 
> when Mozilla or whatever is working fine, it WILL NOT load msnbc.com 
> without locking up.  What's up with that???

Do you have Java, Javascript, etc turned on? Try turning these features 
off and seeing how Mozilla handles things. Do you have any extra 
plugins? Try turning those off too. Then turn it all back on (if you 
want to) until it dies again. If one of them makes it start going wacko 
then you've found your villian. ;)


-- 
Peace, Love, Linux

Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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